Big Bertha Thing invite

60 Newsgroup postings were deleted, after 15 hours.
There were claims of major hacker attack,
which turned to abashed embarassment.
It turned out that the NSP owner, had sent out a world-wide posting.
It invited all users, who had forgotten their passwords, to just
leave it blank. Then a new confirmation password would be sent.
Cinderela was invited to the ball.

Thank you,
Tony Lance

Big Bertha Thing format

Anybody heard of the fly-paper trap?
Where all the flies are collected, in an unsightly mess,
hanging from the kitchen ceiling. The expensive version
is the lizard with a long tongue, that retracts after
each catch.

Take an uncensored version of a usenet newsgroup, show
the subject line of each thread header, with the total
number of postings and the net number of postings after
extracts. Put the total number of extracts, in the first
line, at the top of the list of postings. Anyone wishing
to search the extracts clicks on it and finds each
person extracted with 2 lines each. The first line
shows the number of thread headers and the second the
number of replies. Further clicks go down to posting level.

Extract everyone with more than 1000 postings on any
single newsgroup, from all newsgroups.